1. Bellringer
1. What is one thing that is unique, interesting or
special about you?
2. How could you test or prove your answer to #1?

2. 1 paper per person
• Objective: Students will describe changes made
during the Scientific Revolution

3. “How can we prove anything?”
• 1400’s: besides exploration… What was the other
huge change?

4. Are dreams real?

7. Video clip

8. Video clip
Edeline D’Souza
Her hypothesis: _____________________
1.
2.
3.
4.

9. In your groups of 3
• How could we test each of the parts of her
hypothesis?

10. “How can we prove anything?”
• Rene Descartes
• 1596-1650 – France
• Math – X/Y coordinates
• How do I know god exists?
• Skeptic
• Doubts
• How do I know I exist?
• Experiment?
• “I think therefore I am”
Cogito ergo sum

11. Closure
1. How did Descartes answer our essential
question?
2. How does the scientific method help us
improve our modern world?